Phil Howard's Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, with Doug Edmunds of Summit Design and Engineering. A real SD-WAN deployment across North Carolina, why MPLS is not dead but is not the default either, and the line the episode is named after.
31 Oct 2025 · 3 min read
Cables to Clouds had Scott Robohn on about leaving corporate to go independent. Tim and Chris asked me for the other side of the coin: eight years running WAN Dynamics, the exit, the burnout, and why I went back to a job.
13 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
I had the pleasure of joining Lexi & Andy for the AONE podcast! We talked USNUA, Ohio IX & SD-WAN. Check it out! Why Ohio needed an
25 Mar 2023 · 4 min read
Originally written by Josh Kurtzman for the WAN Dynamics site. Hosting to keep the knowledge alive! Packet Loss, jitter and out of order packets are all problems that
15 Oct 2021 · 2 min read
A Gestalt IT Showcase where Aamer Akhter walked a delegate panel through the technical side of VMware SASE: intelligence, security, access and WAN services across a hybrid enterprise. I sat on the panel with Chris Grundemann, Jody Lemoine and Scott Bollinger.
24 Aug 2021 · 1 min read
A Gestalt IT Showcase with Karl Brown of VMware on why the enterprise is no longer a perimeter-secured fortress, and what that means for how the network is secured. I sat on the delegate panel with Chris Grundemann, Jody Lemoine and Scott Bollinger.
24 Aug 2021 · 1 min read
Originally written by Jeff Zimmerman for the WAN Dynamics site. Hosting to keep the knowledge alive! A feature of modern SD-WAN technology is the ability for branch
21 Jun 2021 · 2 min read
An On-Premise IT Roundtable spotlight on Palo Alto Networks with Chris Grundemann and Rohan Grover. Recorded in the thick of the pandemic, when we were scaling customers onto Prisma Access in droves. SASE turned out to be more than a rebrand.
8 Feb 2021 · 2 min read
There have been a lot of discussions lately about the maturation of the SD-WAN market. Much of what I’ve read and heard is that SD-WAN
23 Aug 2020 · 2 min read
June 2020, when everyone's workday had moved onto Zoom. A short demo of a live video call surviving a failover to 4G on Dell EMC SD-WAN, recorded at WAN Dynamics.
11 Jun 2020 · 1 min read
Six years ago, in 2014, I worked at a regional telecommunications service provider that had encountered this technology called “SD-WAN” in our market. I was the head
27 Apr 2020 · 1 min read
There are many things to consider for businesses to adopt a new technology into their environment. SD-WAN has emerged as a better way to build the WAN
30 Aug 2019 · 1 min read